leadership-development

Why Bi-Vocational Church Planters Multiply Faster

The church plant in rural New Hampshire didn’t launch with a glossy website, a worship band, or a six-figure budget. It started with three families, a handful of committed believers, and a pastor who spent his weekdays working at the local hardware store. Three years later, that small community has become a sending church—already dispatching […]

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Why Character Beats Strategy: The Forgotten Foundation of Church Planting

We can execute a launch strategy perfectly while our souls are wither.” Church planter Luke Simmons dropped this grenade in a recent article, and it’s still ringing in my ears. After fifteen years of watching church plants launch with fireworks and fizzle within eighteen months, I’m convinced he’s identified the epidemic beneath the statistics. The

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Why Indigenous Leaders Multiply Faster: Lessons From Acts 29 Africa

Here’s the hard math of church multiplication: one Western missionary can plant one church every three years. One indigenous leader, properly trained, can plant ten churches in a decade—and raise up others who do the same. In Acts 29 Africa’s regional training days across Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Burundi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we’re seeing what

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